Formosa Carpet Raspberry Edible

Alternate flowers and fruit.

Formosa carpet raspberry edible.

Edible berry bushes can be used as individual specimen plants or lined up as hedges. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. Rubus calcynoides is a fast and low growing wide spreading attractive groundcover that suppresses weeds produces edible berries and provides year round visual interest with its leaves that change colors with the season.

Flowers small white usually solitary followed by amber raspberry like fruits. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Low growers can be used as ground covers or edging plants. Creeping raspberry bears aggregate fruit with each fruit a cluster of small seed bearing parts connected together.

Vividly yellow to orange red they sometimes almost achieve true red coloration. Succeeds in deep shade. Taiwan creeping raspberry origin ecology. The fruits look just like red raspberries but are distinct in color.

Creeping raspberry also produces edible fruit right after the early summer bloom. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Also it s hardy.

The greenhouse nursery 81 s. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. Leaves turn wine purple when exposed to cold temperatures in the open. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot.

Fruit is edible but not worth seeking out.